Unless children attend school, learning is impossible but chronic absenteeism is an issue confronting school leaders, principals and teachers everyday in schools all across America. This Spotlight showcases how educators have confronted this problem, with innovative and cost effective solutions, building family engagement, and learning about their…

The Kettering Foundation is a nonprofit, operating foundation rooted in the American tradition of cooperative research. The foundation seeks to identify and address the challenges to making democracy work as it should through interrelated program areas that focus on citizens, communities, and institutions. Each issue of this annual newsletter…